Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-12
DEATH IN THE WATER.
is THE ELEMENT WE DRINK DECI
MATING THE PEOPLEs
How Universal Menace to Health
May be Disarmed.

A few years ago the people in certain
section in one of the leading cities of the
State were Frustrated with a malignant dis
ease, and upon investigation it was found
that only those who used water from ia
nous old well were the victims.
Professor s. A. baltimore, analyst of the
New York State Board of Health, upon
Analysing water from this well. found il
more deadly than the city sewage
Not long since the writer noticed while
some men were making an excavation for a
large building, stratum of dark colored
earth running from near the surface to hard
pan. Then it took another course toward a
well near at hand. The water from this
well had for years been tainted with the
DRAWINGS from receiving vault, the perco-
lations of which had discolored the earth
Terriblei
A similar condition of things exists in
every village and city where well water is
used, and though the filtering which the
fluids receive Ill passing through the earth
may give them clear appearance, yet the
poison and disease remains, though the
water may look never so clear
1t is still worse with the farmer, for the
drainage from the barn-yafd and the Stops
from the kitchen eventually find their way
into the family well
The same condition of things exists in
our large cities, whose water supplies are
rivers fed by little streams that carry off the
filth and drainage from houses. This
water is eventually drunk by rich and
poor alike with great evil
Some cautious people resort to the filter
for purifying this water, but even the filter
does not remove this poison, for water OF
| the most deadly character may pass through
this filter and become clear, yet the poison
disguised is there.
They who use filters know that they
must be renewed at regular periods, fol
even though they do not take out all the
| impurity. they soon become foul.
Now in like manner the human kidneys
act as filter for the blood, and if they are
filled up with impurities and become foul
| like the filter, all the blood in the system
coursing through them becomes bad, for il
is now a conceded fact that the kidneys are
| the chief means whereby the blood is puri-
| fed. HThese organs are filed with thou
sands of hair ike tubes which drain the i'm
purities from the blood, as the sewer-pipes
| drain impurities from our houses.
If sewer-pipe breaks under the house,
the sewage escapes into the earth and fills
the house with poisonous gas so if any Of
the thousand and one little hair-like sewer
tubes of the kidneys break down. the en-
| tire body is affected by this awful poison.
It is a scientific fact that the kidneys
have few nerves of sensation; and, conse-
quently, disease may exist in these organs
tor a long time and not be suspected by the
individual. 1t is impossible to filter or take
the death out of the blood when the least
! arrangement exists in these organs, and il
the blood is not filtered then the uric
acid, or kidney poison, removable only by
Warmers safe cure, accumulates in the sys-
tenn and attack any organ, producing nine
out of ten ailments. just as sewer gas and
bad drainage produce so many fatal dis
orders.
Kidney disease may be known to exist il
there is any marked departure from ordi-
nary health without apparent known cause
and it should be understood by all that the
| greatest peril exists, and is intensified, il
there is the least neglect to treat il
promptly with that great specific
| Warmers safe cure, a remedy that has re-
ceived the highest recognition by scientific
men who have thoroughly investigated the
character of kidney arrangements
They may not tell us that the cause OF sc
many diseases in this organ is the impure
water or any other one thing, but this pois-
onous water with its impurities coursing
/ constantly through these uenCate organs
undoubtedly does produce much of the de
cay and disease which eventually termi-
nate in the fatal Brights disease, fer thi:
disease, alike among drinking men, pro-
hibitionists, the tobacco slave the laborer
the merchant and the tramp, works terri
bic devastation every year.
| It is well known that the liver which is
so easily thrown out OF gear, as they
say, very readily disturbs the action of the
kidneys. That organ when deranged
! immediately announces the fact by sallow
skin. constipated bowels. coated tongue
and headaches, but the kidney when dis
eased struggles ON for long time, ard the
] fact of its disease can only be discovered by
| the aid OF the microscope or by the physi
clan who is skillful enough to trace tht
most indirect effects in the system to the
arrangement of these organs as the prime
cause
The public is learning much on this sub
| ject and when it comes TO understand that
the kidneys are the real health regulators
as they are the real blood purifiers of the
system, they will escape an infinite amount
of unnecessary suffering and add length o.
days and happiness TO their lot.